On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the glover’s son-turned-actor from Stratford-upon-Avon — who, due ...

Ahhh...the old "Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare" conspiracy theory, the one that contends that William Shakespeare was an illiterate buffoon with barely enough brains ...

Did William Shakespeare really write the works attributed to him? That is the question. In Anonymous, director Roland Emmerich offers a possible answer. "I'm fascinated by the fact that the biggest ...

Director Roland Emmerich should be an expert in disaster movies by now. For over 10 years, he’s been the prophet of doom behind such apocalyptic hits as “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” ...

William Shakespeare is the world’s greatest playwright. He wrote almost 40 plays and 150 sonnets, he was a master of nearly every genre and he changed the way the world saw the arts. Almost 400 years ...

Leave it to a German to blitzkrieg the Immortal Bard and the Virgin Queen in one sitting. Roland Emmerich's Anonymous is a generally sober-minded legitimizing of a couple of the Elizabethan era's most ...

Who was William Shakespeare? Was he the Bard of Avon, the rags-to-riches playwright whose brilliant command of language produced “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? Or was he a drunk, ...

Shakespeare denial is a harmless diversion. No polar bears will die if we don't take measures to correct it. It has the added benefit of being an economic stimulus. When you enter "Shakespeare ...